Download or read book The Continental Jurassic written by Michael Morales and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Continental Jurassic written by Michael Morales and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Triassic Jurassic Rifting written by W. Manspeizer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive field studies on the African and North American plates during this past decade have yielded a wealth of new data and ideas about rift basins and the origin of passive margins. New surface and subsurface basins have been identified; fossils abound in strata that only recently were considered barren; oil exploration is being actively pursued in continental strata of the Richmond-Taylorsville, Sanford and Newark basins, Late Triassic marine strata have been identified in Georges Bank off the coast of Massachusetts, and the roles of wrench tectonics, successor basins and listric normal faults have challenged the classical view that these are simple extensional basins.This two part work brings together representative examples of these studies. It is not intended as an exhaustive synthesis of the subject, but rather a vehicle to present new data, new ideas and alternative views. Some of the papers present regional summaries, others attempt to relate local features to regional questions, while others describe modern rift basins as possible analogs of early Mesozoic basins.Geologic data from the Atlantic passive margins record that continental rifting of central Pangaea occurred during the latest Triassic-earliest Jurassic (Liassic), and that sea-floor spreading probably began no later than the Middle Jurassic. The primary subject of this book focuses on the Triassic-Jurassic rifting events that led to the breakup of Pangaea and the opening of the central Atlantic Ocean. Whereas other treatises have focused on the origin of the passive margins, inferred primarily from geophysical data of the offshore basins, this volume primarily and uniquely focuses on land-based field studies of the onshore synrift basins. Offshore studies of synrift basins are also included and add substantially to our understanding of the breakup. However, the onshore data base, while complementary, is different, thus providing researchers with a different insight to the questions at hand.The book is organized into four sections. Section I, Pangaean Plate in Time and Space, first locates Pangaea in space and then places the Triassic basins within an historical context on the Alleghanian-Variscan Orogens. Section 2, the offshore and onshore basins of the North American and African Plates, comprises about 70% of all papers in this book, and includes papers on structural geology, petrology, paleontology, sedimentation, organic geochemistry, vulcanism and mineral resources. Section 3, Related Mesozoic Atlantic Rift Basins, includes papers on Iberia, Western Europe, the Benue Trough and Brazil. The final section of the book, Analogs, includes the rift basins of East Africa, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba), the Dead Sea and the Rio Grande.The book is richly illustrated throughout with figures, photographs, tables and fold-out maps, including nine in full colour.

Download or read book Jurassic Paleobiogeography of the Conterminous United States in Its Continental Setting written by Ralph Willard Imlay and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleogeographic changes in the United States during Jurassic time are revealed by the distribution, succession, and differentiation of molluscan faunas; by gross stratigraphic changes; by the position, extent, and duration of unconformities; and by comparisons with Jurassic data elsewhere in North America.

Download or read book The Jurassic Ammonite Zones of the Soviet Union written by Mikhail Semenovich Mesezhnikov and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jurassic of the Circum Pacific written by Gerd Ernst Gerold Westermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, 60 specialists come together to discuss the regional occurrences of Jurassic rocks. Not only is this the first comprehensive synthesis of Jurassic geology and palaeontology, but it is in fact the only one of its kind for any geological system.

Download or read book Tectonosedimentary Relations of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic Strata on the Colorado Plateau written by William R. Dickinson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following this discovery and further detrital-zircon studies of Mesozoic strata on the Colorado Plateau, Dr. Dickinson began preparing this volume in order to identify key aspects of the sedimentary and tectonic history of Mesozoic strata of the Colorado Plateau and directly adjacent areas. He divided the strata into seven depositional systems"--

Download or read book Earth History and Palaeogeography written by Trond H. Torsvik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Download or read book A North American Epicontinental Sea of Jurassic Age written by William Newton Logan and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1900 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation written by John R. Foster and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paleoecological Analysis of the Vertebrate Fauna of the Morrison Formation Upper Jurassic Rocky Mountain Region U S A written by John R. Foster and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jurassic West Second Edition written by John Foster and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of the life of this ancient world as scientists have so far been able to reconstruct it. Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus. But dinosaurs compose barely a third of the more than 90 types of vertebrates known from the formation, which include crocodiles and turtles, frogs and salamanders, dinosaurs and mammals, clams and snails, and ginkgoes, ferns, and conifers. Featuring nearly all new illustrations, the second edition of this classic work includes new taxa named since 2007, updates to the naming and classifications of some old taxa, and expanded sections on numerous aspects of Morrison Formation paleontology and geology.

Download or read book Climate in Earth History written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation written by Kenneth Carpenter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Triassic Jurassic Terrestrial Transition written by Jerry D. Harris and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Late Jurassic Margin of Laurasia A Record of Faulting written by Thomas H. Anderson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2015 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The objective of this volume is to characterize geologic relationships and settings at the margin of the Laurasia plate from Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, overlapping the time of the opening of the central Atlantic basin, with the intent of assessing the compatibility of the features with contemporaneous, sinistral fault movement"--Introduction, page v.

Download or read book Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions written by Christian Koeberl and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: